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winter, where they continued development work and started a flying school.  They also had a Roberts-powered Curtiss-type biplane which Studenski started flying.  A class of students was formed and T. H. Worden joined the group as assistant in-structor.  A Chicago aero mechanic, Rudy Sestak, was also a member of the organi-sation. 

     On March 2d, 1912 Studenski made a 25-minute flight over the city of Galveston and surrounding vicinity, and during his flying that winter carried the fist authorized mail in Texas on March 17th.  This necessitated carrying the mail from their flying field to the Fair Grounds, about 30 miles away, where he delivered it to a sub-station.  That month he was also flying the Beech-Nationation plane, and on March 29th carried A.C. Beech on a long test flight.  All operations were moved back to Chicago in the spring. Where Studenski continued on test and exhibition work that season.

     During the spring of 1912 the company introduced a smaller, single-seat version of the Beech-National biplane, using a 50 ph, Gnome engine, and Studenski conducted tests on this new plane at Cicero Field during June.  On July 18th he flew at Atchi-son, Kansas.  That spring the National Company purchased a French Nieuport mono-plane and a Nieuport pilot, Marcel Tournier, was engaged to fly it.  Studenski also began using the Niewuport, and during June and July was very active at Cicero, doing some of the best flying at the field.  On August 7th he flew the Beech-National at Bushnell, Illionois, then flew 45 miles to Rushville, Illinois for an exhibition engagement.  August 19th he flew at Owatonna, Minnesota, then on August 24th started a one-week engagement at the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines with Marcel Tournier and  William C. Robinson.  September 2d to 7th he flew at St. Pual, Minnesota, again with these same two aviators.  September 8th to 13th Studenski flew alone at Huron, South Dakota; September 18th and 19th at Madison, South Dakota; then on the 24th to 26th he was at the Dawson County Fair, Glendive, Montana. 

     Studenski remained with the National Company through 1912, then in the spring of 1913 he started to fly a Roberts-powered Curtiss-type biplane for the Silver Lake Aviation Company of Akron, Ohio. He signed a contract there for one year but after a few weeks of flying the company folded up in June, so Studenski sued for


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